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The county in Texas Hill Country accepted the funds from the state following last summer's deadly flooding on the Guadalupe River. Neighboring Kerr County accepted a similar state grant this week. -
By responding to 911 calls involving mental health crises with a specialized team including a clinical social worker, the program cut hospitalization rates. Permanent funding may be on the way.
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The Flathead County Sheriff's Office is set to receive a new remote underwater vehicle after getting approval from county commissioners on Tuesday.
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The information gathered from those eerily prescient hearings is now informing draft crisis standards of care guidelines being prepared should that nightmare scenario become reality, COVID-19 patients overwhelm the state’s ability to care for them.
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Health officials initially downplayed the severity of the crisis, but before it was over, hospitals were overrun, makeshift medical facilities were set up and businesses temporarily shut as Hawaii fought the outbreak.
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Also, FirstNet applications like the e-Bridge app are being used to help first responders and medical professionals respond to the coronavirus pandemic by providing situational awareness and telemedicine capabilities.
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State officials have been told that more are on the way, but even once those arrive, they’ll be more than 261,000 masks short of what they’ve asked for, according to FEMA data and the state’s Health Department.
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“(The virus is) obviously more serious than you think,” Grand Blanc High School football coach Clint Alexander told MLive. “... Young kids think you can live forever, and now they realize this thing is pretty scary.”
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At South Coastal Animal Health in Weymouth, Mass., veterinarians and technicians continue to tend to their four-legged patients through the COVID-19 pandemic, with safeguards in place to keep staff and pet owners safe.
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Worker advocates say hospitals are generally reluctant to acknowledge infections are occurring on their properties. If workers can’t prove they contracted COVID-19 at work, the hospitals can avoid paying workers’ comp.
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"While the COVID-19 public health crisis is unprecedented, Florida has a strong foundation of emergency preparedness built on government collaboration at all levels," said agency Secretary Mary Mayhew.
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There are now 686 cases in the Lehigh Valley, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Lehigh and Northampton counties combined on Wednesday saw a one-day increase in coronavirus cases of more than 32%.
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Forecasting the coronavirus spread is a bit like predicting the weather, said Carl Bergstrom, a biologist at the University of Washington who studies the epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases.
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Court filings, interviews and social media postings detail a tense environment — one in which close quarters makes social distancing all but impossible, and with daily contact between worried inmates and guards.
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A spokeswoman for the Colorado Hospital Association said the state’s medical network is currently “not anywhere near capacity” but the growing numbers of coronavirus cases in the state could quickly change that situation.
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Several metro hospitals were planning major expansions to handle spiking patient loads, while rural hospitals continued to struggle treating uninsured patients amid the closure of seven rural hospitals in recent years.
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On duty, he wore a surgical gown above his clothes, along with latex gloves and an N95 respirator — the kind that is increasingly precious in a state closing in on 60,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, most in metro NYC.
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They’re using a laser cutter to make about 80 disposable face shields per day at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering machine shop on NC State’s Centennial Campus. They anticipate manufacturing 5,000 face shields over the next 30 to 60 days,
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In the past four days, the number of intensive care patients in the state has tripled — from 200 to 597 — and the number of hospitalizations has nearly doubled, from 746 to 1,432. By Tuesday morning, the number of confirmed cases has climbed to more than 7,400 and deaths to 149.
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Local skilled-nursing and long-term care facilities that have health care providers on staff can help order tests for residents who need them, but facilities that do not are largely relying on their residents’ ability to get tested through their own health care providers.
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There are roughly 5,350 available beds without expanding capacity in the St. Louis hospital referral region, the health care market that includes the metro-east and much of southeastern Missouri down to the Arkansas border.
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